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Jeremy Howard, creator of llms.txt, released version 2 of the specification on August 10, adding formal Markdown linking for AI agents. The update introduces two URL patterns for Markdown pages and tw…

Anthropic, the AI firm behind the Claude model, reported AI revenue growth of nearly 1,500%, with Q2 2026 revenue exceeding $11.5 billion, more than 14 times the same quarter last year. The company pr…

BCG's 'The Great Divide' report says the US and China are building increasingly incompatible AI stacks, with the US relying on NVIDIA chips and CUDA, US hyperscaler clouds, and closed models from Open…

Vendo.run has launched an open-source customization layer that lets end users build their own features and micro-apps on top of existing products, with a free tier including $5 of monthly usage and pa…

Best Buy's 60th Anniversary Sale is now live, offering up to $1,350 off Copilot+ PCs and gaming laptops, 20% off Google's Pixelsnap cases, and OLED TVs starting at $700, with a 58-inch model at $190. …

Apollo Capital chief economist Torsten Slok noted that while chipmakers and energy providers profit from AI, the AI companies themselves are losing money, threatening the industry's sustainability. Ch…

Anthropic has announced a new text watermarking system for its Claude AI model that alters outputs in a way the company says allows it to assess the probability any block of text was generated by Clau…

Stripe has acquired OpenRouter, an AI model gateway used by 8 million developers, for more than $7 billion, with the deal closing on August 16. The acquisition gives Stripe control over both the billi…

Palona AI, founded by Maria Zhang, launched a multimodal AI operating layer for restaurants on August 17, extending its phone agents to integrate customer conversations, business systems, and security…

Google illegally retains customer data from its AI Studio platform, according to a user who demonstrated that pressing the delete button only moves a JSON launcher file to Google Drive trash, while th…

Google's Pixel 11 lineup introduces Magic Capture and Instant Night Sight, with the surprising choice that the cheapest and priciest models share a main camera. Mashable tested Magic Capture and asked…

Corelight's Provably Better Data research project found that high-fidelity network evidence can improve security operations outcomes by 2-4x across core investigation metrics, with data quality provin…

Sunrun will supply Voltus with capacity from residential solar-plus-storage systems in PJM and MISO under an agreement supporting Voltus' Bring Your Own Capacity programs for AI hyperscalers, the comp…

Google has open-sourced a C++ library for validating digital media, aimed at developers addressing content provenance amid a flood of AI-generated content. The library, announced on Aug 17, 2026, prov…

Google announced multi-year partnerships with Arsenal, FC Barcelona, FC Bayern München, Liverpool FC, and Paris Saint-Germain, making it the Official Consumer AI and Official Smartphone Partner for th…

The Agent-to-Agent Protocol (A2A), supported by over 150 organizations, has reached version 1.0 with integrations across Google, Microsoft, and AWS, marking a shift toward standardized AI agent collab…

Reddit reported Q2 2026 revenue of $805 million, with advertising up 64% to $762 million and data licensing revenue growing 24% to $43 million, but the stock fell over 20% as investors focused on the …

Groq has raised $350 million in funding at a $3.5 billion valuation, roughly half its $6.9 billion valuation from last September, after Nvidia Corp. struck a licensing deal with the startup and hired …

Geoffrey Hinton, the British computer scientist known as the 'Godfather of AI,' warned that Big Tech is investing roughly a trillion dollars in AI systems designed to 'do the work of workers much chea…

Google's AI Mode and AI Overviews are increasingly selecting local businesses for customers, reducing the field to three to five recommended brands per query, according to Uberall's benchmark. Google'…